Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Leigh

I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some [Hollywood] studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.

Mickey Gilley

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

Mara Wilson

I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.

Jonathan Swift

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

Kevin Rudd

The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding the problems created by a private sector already in retreat. The result, of course, was an economic rout, appalling unemployment and a decade of negligible growth through the 1930s

Kay Bailey Hutchison

People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.

Katie Aselton

When you're generating your own stuff, you can never have too much money around, because you've already sacrificed so much and cut your budget so much that everything's taking a hit.

Kurt Fuller

The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"

Khaled Hosseini

The finger cut, to save the hand.

Khaled Hosseini

The impact had cut your upper lip in two, he had said, clean down the middle. Clean down the middle. Like a harelip.

Khalil Gibran

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

Kenneth Lonergan

There's a few people who I've accumulated over the years who I really trust to show a first cut to and to be helpful rather than unhelpful.

Jonathan Swift

When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your worst clothes, and the worse the better; for an author, like a limbeck, will yield the better for having a rag about him: besides that, I have observed a gardener cut the outward rind of a tree (which is the surtout of it) to make it bear well; and this is a natural account of the usual poverty of poets, and is an argument why wits, of all men living, ought to be ill clad.

Jonathan Sacks

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.

Jonathan Sacks

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was.

Naomi Wolf

Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.

Narendra Modi

We need to cut subsidy leakages, not subsidies themselves.

Jaclyn Smith

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

Harvey Mackay

There has been a seismic shift in the business world. The great classical business principles still hold true but they need to be fused with cutting edge internet technology.

Cam Ward

The guys have had a very solid effort in front of me. But we've got to keep tightening down in our defensive zone and cutting down their chances.

The industry in Japan as a whole has recognized the need for this and is coordinating efforts. Cutting down on the things that lead to these smells is only something that can be better for you.

You will be cutting to the bone. You will be spending money only on those things you need to spend money on.

You want to be cutting down the nets at the end. For this to be the last game for this team, that's disappointing.

James Altucher

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

Jacques Pepin

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

Jacob Lew

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Henry Rollins

I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

Henry Rollins

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

Henry Adams

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

Henry Adams

You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

Henry Giroux

The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing politicians who are cutting funds for state universities and doing everything they can to turn them in training centers to fill the needs of corporations. This new and intense attack on both the social state and higher education completely undermines the public nature of what education is all about.

Henry Bonilla

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.